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BRANCHIOPOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
Synonyms:
branchiopod; branchiopod crustacean; branchiopodan
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("branchiopod" is a kind of...):
crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "branchiopod"):
daphnia; water flea (minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae)
fairy shrimp (small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back)
Artemia salina; brine shrimp (common to saline lakes)
tadpole shrimp (a kind of branchiopod crustacean)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda
Synonyms:
branchiopod; branchiopodan; branchiopodous
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
subclass Branchiopoda (primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas)
